Job 16:4

I also could speak as you do, 1 if you were in my place; 1 I could collect and join words together against you 1 and shake my head at you in mockery. 1

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In The King James Version

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

In Context

3Will useless words ever have an end? 1 What is wrong with you that you answer like this? 1

5I would strengthen you with my mouth, 1 and the quivering of my lips will bring you relief! 1

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Cross References

Job 6:2“Oh, if only my anguish were weighed; 1 if only all my calamity were laid in the balance! 1

Job 11:2“Should not such a multitude of words be answered? 1 Should this man, so full of talk, be believed? 1

Psalms 22:7All those who see me taunt me; 1 they mock me; they shake their heads at me. 1

Psalms 44:14You make us an insult among the nations, 1 a shaking of the head among the peoples. 1

Proverbs 10:19When there are many words, transgression is not lacking, 1 but he who is careful in what he says is wise. 1

Jeremiah 18:16Their land will become a horror, an object of everlasting hissing. 1 Everyone who passes by her will shudder and shake his head. 1

Matthew Henry on Job 16:2-6

The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly… Read the whole commentary →

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